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What are your needs? If it is to demand that only unambiguous text communication takes place or ideological unity because optics, good luck (sarcasm intended) with that anywhere

Also there is any number of reasons why any given person might not respond with swift denunciation. Not the least of which is "not feeding the trolls" (but here I am feeding you). I don't think you should pretend that trying to moderate and stick to anarchist values (which vary mind you) is some easy and static task.

What is your goal here? Are you satisfied in proclaiming or at least sewing enough doubt and fear about the IRC being some crypto alt-right den? Just trying to feel like you dominate this comment thread, getting the last word and calling everyone that has a counterpoint stupid?

"Slur, even sarcatic, becomes something else in a communicational environment (the internet, and chat rooms) deprived of any f2f contact or or irl knowledge of people. There's your side of things, and there's the people that read your posts, in complete ignorance of where you're from. The latter -the insight from the interpersonal dimension- is what allowed sarcasm to work, instead of couter-productively making you look like the exact characters you're satirizing."

It isn't as though this is a minority opinion. What is your solution? Stop using the internet? ok

"The point is that, in the context of this allegation, there's no way to determine whether Plast is being (recklessly) sarcastic or an actual pissy Far Right asshole, other than by knowing this character irl. And yes, there's been at least one or two of these types hanging out around the @planet IRC. Like I recall someone posted a link to an obvious Alt Right chan on the @planet's pad, about a year back. Was that some troll, or an actual ganggang acolyte... who knows?"

It isn't a secure, identity-authenticated medium amongst people with irl connections, treat it as such. That's the trade off of being open, much like anews comments.